But… what YEAR???
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Quokka@quokk.au 5 hours agodd-mm feels completely natural to say in conversation. “Do you want to go to a X with me on the 3rd of August”
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 hours ago
recursivethinking@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Its fine but its unnecessarily long. Its just one syllable/word but its extra.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Two words when used in a sentence. “The 4th of August” vs “August 4th”
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Does “August 3rd” sound unnatural to you?
In spoken conversation it doesn’t really matter. In many contexts you could probably just say “Want to go on the third?” and the person you’re talking to will understand you mean August the third of this current year.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It does to me. mm-dd is not used at all in my native language and would be considered grammatically incorrect. Since English doesn’t prescribe it I have no reason to fully accept it.
Note that I still prefer to write ISO 8601 dates but my spoken dates are big-endian.
Middle-endian dates like “June 15th 2046” are just bad, of course.
recursivethinking@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I commented earlier that having to say more words is inefficient, but what yiu said made me think… In other languages I know, it’s basically spoken as "3rd August’… Eliminating the inefficiency. It’s really more English’s general inefficiency that irks me, more so than the order of the dates lol